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LastThird
@lastthird.bsky.social
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I'm a single issue voter, and I want you to be too: We should keep democracy.
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lastthird.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
I think @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy might agree with you:

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
During my stay at Cornell, one of the people responsible for the university's AI strategy asked me what I thought the university should be doing about AI. I told them that they should be planning to absorb the productive residue that will be left behind after the bubble bursts: https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/ Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models that have barely been optimized and have vast potential for improvement.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Jeez, nothing is safe
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
If I could respond to @crushbort.bsky.social I'd say that the same could be said for calling it"______ Canto"
bort @crushbort.bsky.social calling a book about yourself “american __” is some real 19-year-old english lit major shit. like those reddit posts entitled something like “How it came to this.” where you realize someone wrote a 20 page post about getting friendzoned. except it’s about fucking a ReDead
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
"service."
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Just revisited this, and OMG I found the biggest dead giveaway:
These caps are no more than 15-20 frames apart from each other. Look at the eyes.
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
lastthird.bsky.social
@amutepiggy.bsky.social I like your banner image, here's one I used to use (stolen from my college campus 30+ years ago; one of my proudest acts):
A handwritten sign, with arrows pointing to "Knowledge Bowel"
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Sorta obliquely adjacent to a recent dream I had...
I forgot to mention earlier... I had THE WEIRDEST fever-type dream this morning while completely sleeping through my alarm: I dreamt that we -- our team -- were working on embodying AI models. Like, somehow embedding them into robot/synthetic creatures that let them interact with the world, to see what effect that had on training them. But the catch -- the thing we were working on -- was that as soon as they figured out they were interacting with the real world (and we were only just barely starting to understand that this was why), they'd go insane and figure out how to kill themselves.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
lastthird.bsky.social
HEY-O
"Dems copulating"
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
That was early reporting, which has since been disputed:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Live TV coverage of the event shows a man — initially identified as Novo Nordisk exec Gordon Findlay, a claim that was later disputed — slumping to the floor inside the Oval Office, with several men nearby helping to guide his body safely to the ground.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
P.S. I think I'm wrong about this actually. The first is Mike Doustdar, CEO of Novo Nordisk; the second is the guy who passed out (and as far as I can find, hasn't been identified).
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
She decides she's going to have to be a hero... by bringing down all the freakishly happy people around her, LOL
"She decides she’s going to have to take matters into her own hands and be a hero, and I love the idea of a reluctant hero.”
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Boy they really leave nothing about the concept of "exiting" open to interpretation.
Information Do not overlook any anomalies. If you find an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you do not find any anomalies, do not turn back. Go out from Exit 8.
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
I mean, it was working ok until its built-in mechanism to keep it relevant to its times -- amendibility -- was broken by Antonin Scalia and originalism. It's no accident that the last proposal for an amendment that went on to be ratified was in 1971.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it. “The whole purpose of the Constitution,” Scalia once said, “is to prevent a future society from doing what it wants to do.” This is not true. One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change. But another was to allow for change without violence. Amendment is a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection—the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition—so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation—that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten.
November 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
The quote:
Neguse called out the dynamic in which observers refuse to hold President Donald J. Trump and MAGA Republicans to account and instead demand Democrats step in to fix whatever crisis is at hand. “The basis for your question is, and maybe the better way to state it would be, if the Trump administration continues to violate the law, if the Trump administration unlawfully refuses to release funds so that families in Colorado don’t go hungry, if the Trump administration refuses to follow the law, as they have for the better course of the last nine months, violating statute after statute, if in that scenario these actions unfold, then how will Democrats respond?” Neguse answered.
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
lastthird.bsky.social
I'm just going to make a prediction here that Trump will say he provided information leading to arrest(s) and claim the reward for himself. I am not even joking; I think all it will take is someone in his circle to jokingly suggest it, and he'll bite.
Washington has doubled the reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest to $50 million—the largest such bounty ever offered—and currently offers $25 million rewards for the capture of some of his top lieutenants, including Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who is believed to run cartel operations. Another key regime figure facing U.S. drug-trafficking charges is Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Not far.
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
lastthird.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
Boy, this is fucking ironic
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
I should have snapped a pic at the event.
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
I'll be curious about your take on it.
That said, I was already starting to suspect that the inflatable animals--by being taken up and exploding in popularity--are becoming infused with meaning that I think will work against them as shitposts.
And as @sarahjeong.bsky.social notes: this ain't great
The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing. As you can see in the grid of outcomes, the majority of the time, people are simply posting at each other instead of engaging with reality or solving collective action problems. The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
It's actually worse than useless! The inflatable animals in the presence of people acting normal just look stupid ("Acting normal wins")
Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
mankini...

shoundzh the shame no matter who shayzh it
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
lastthird.bsky.social
a talented artist could turn that into an antifa flag
October 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM